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All about the thought leading tech entrepreneurs who are paving the digital path of the future.

I Use AI Every Day. Here's Why I Still Don't Trust Its Judgment.
Last night I saw Karpathy's tweet. Some people made funnel charts. Some reposted it. I didn't feel vertigo. I don't stand higher. I stand somewhere specific. An internal IM. A client PPT. A long-tail problem with a feedback cycle of several months. What I feel is regret.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
Meta Closed the Door on Open Source to Catch Up in AI
On October 12, 2026, Meta released Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full, the first frontier models in its history. Zuckerberg said Meta had caught up with competitors at the AI frontier and promised more investment. The release also caused a strong reaction in Silicon Valley that went beyond technology. Meta, once the company that used its open-source Llama series to make large models widely available, had ended its open-source era.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
Roche Is Giving AI a Job Review. It Wants AI in 80% of Drug Decisions.
London, late September. At Roche’s annual investor event Pharma Day, Aviv Regev, head of Genentech’s Research and Early Development, opened with a slide that had nothing to do with the pipeline or sales. It was a set of statistics on AI contribution.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
Why Every AI Tool Wants Your Notes in Markdown
Open ChatGPT, and it outputs .md. Open Claude, and it reads .md. Open Obsidian, and your notes are .md. Open Logseq, and the underlying format is .md. MCP exposes tools and knowledge sources as Markdown. OKF treats Markdown plus YAML frontmatter as its basic unit. Microsoft open-sourced markitdown, which turns PDF, PPT, Word, Excel, images, audio, and video into Markdown.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
Apple’s HomeView Is a $299 Bet That Your House Needs Siri
On October 13, 2026, Apple held an event called Welcome Home. There was no iPhone, no Mac, no iPad. The company put the living room, kitchen counter, and hallway at the center. It introduced HomeView, a $299 smart home hub with a 7-inch screen; a second-generation HomePod mini; a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K; and Apple Home Collection, a set of cameras, locks, thermostats, and sensors developed with LG and Schneider Electric.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
He Was Fired for Sabotaging AI Training at ByteDance. Two Years Later, VCs Gave Him $30 million.
On October 12, 2026, the podcast elsewhere released a 117-minute interview with Tian Keyu. At the end, the host asked him to swear an oath. If he had told even half a lie, he said, he would suffer lifelong setbacks in research.
By Jin9 days ago in 01
Wang Xingxing Says GPT-7 Will Break Embodied AI. Here’s What It Can’t Break.
Wang Xingxing’s Timetable On October 12, 2026, at the opening of the China International Industry Fair, Wang Xingxing, founder of Unitree Robotics, gave a judgment: the tipping point for embodied AI may arrive in as little as one to two years, “because when GPT-7 comes out next year, it may directly break through the embodied AI problem.”
By Jin9 days ago in 01
OpenAI Retracted 3 AI Math Papers Over One Sign Error
OpenAI released 722 AI math manuscripts. Then it pulled three back. One sign was wrong, and the proof fell apart. The detail sounds funny. The problem is not. AI can now generate papers faster than anyone can check them. That gap is the story.
By Jin11 days ago in 01
Huawei’s ‘Xingmang’ Rumor: The Mid-Range Comeback Nobody Saw Coming
On October 11, 2026, “Huawei to launch sub-brand Xingmang” trended on Weibo. Several tech bloggers claimed Huawei would launch a new phone sub-brand called Xingmang (星芒, “Starlight”). They said it would target the 1,799 to 4,000 yuan mid-range market, much like early Honor. The first model was expected in November, with a Kirin 8-series chip, native HarmonyOS, and XMAGE imaging. Satellite communication would be removed. The pitch: a cheaper way to get Kirin and HarmonyOS.
By Jin11 days ago in 01
SEO Isn’t Dying. It’s Finally Being Marked Properly
Earlier this year, Ahrefs, the Singapore-headquartered SEO software firm, put a number on what many of us had been watching on client dashboards. Across 300,000 keywords, when Google showed an AI Overview, the top-ranking page earned about 58% fewer clicks, up from a 34.5% reduction in the firm’s April 2025 study [1]. Then a separate randomised study of 1,065 Chrome users, which tested cause rather than mere correlation, found outbound clicks fell by nearly 40% when an overview appeared [2].
By Daz Low13 days ago in 01
Jensen Huang’s Son-in-Law Runs Nvidia’s AI Money Machine
A little over a week after the wedding in Hawaii, Nico Caprez returned to Nvidia’s offices. He is 35, Swiss, a former professional alpine ski racer. After retiring, he joined Boston Consulting Group’s Zurich office, then went to London Business School for an MBA. There, he and Jensen Huang’s daughter, Madison Huang, became classmates.
By Jin13 days ago in 01
One Wrong Sign: The Tiny Error That Broke OpenAI’s 722-Paper Math Drop
On October 6, 2026, OpenAI published 722 mathematical manuscripts on GitHub, all generated by its internal unreleased frontier model, covering 372 result families. Within 24 hours, three of them were retracted.
By Jin13 days ago in 01